Best laid plans, ammIrite?
So, what happened was that I pushed exercise off for a nap, made dinner (and got an upset stomach again — I need to lay off on the habanero pepper, apparently) and then I checked in on some work stuff and spent the next four hours dealing with an issue there, since it affected work running on four computers. Fun times. So, today, the work-life balance wasn’t well-balanced.
Food-wise, I’ve moved to a “v2” of my points system that I use to score the week. It affects today because what it is is I’ve split my points for tracking food between tracking and not passing the buck. To explain: My points system is my way to rank the relative importance of doing things related to measuring weight and bodyfat, sleep, tracking food, hitting goals with food, and exercise. It ranges between –100 and +100, where not doing something gives me negative points, and doing something gives me positive points. It’s all weighted for relative importance, so weight lifting is worth +2.5 points (or –2.5 if I don’t do it), while hitting my calorie goal in a day is worth +0.5 points (or –0.5 if I don’t do it).
Previously, tracking food has been an issue for me because if I didn’t track, I failed to eat within my goals. So I had it at a very large +3 points for every day that I tracked, which is quite large. Since I’ve been doing so well with it for the last 18 weeks, I figured it’s no longer such a significant thing I need to make sure I do, since I’m doing it. So, it’s now worth +1.5 points per day that I do it, basically a gimme.
What I gave the other 1.5 pts to is not transferring food to a later date. So, it was starting to get a little ridiculous. It started with something simple, like it being 11pm, I was hungry, I’d have a piece of fruit that I had on the plan for the next day. No biggie, I wouldn’t eat it the next day. It grew much larger, where I’d eat 2 cups of ice cream, but have no more room for the day, so I would portion out 0.5 cups for the next four days, or some time in the next week when I had space. I’m paying this week for some ice cream and cookies from last week.
So, that’s pretty ridiculous, and even though “on paper” I’m hitting my targets because I ate less today since I didn’t eat cookies (but I ate them last week), it … yeah, just becomes silly. And I did it again today: I saw someone post on Facebook a back of Fijian pancakes they made, and it looked neat and I wanted to try it. So I made some. Only, then I calculated the nutrition, I can’t fit it in, and so I put them on my calendar for Friday. Even though I ate them today. So you don’t see “🥞🇫🇯” today, but you will see it on Friday, and I’ll discuss how wonderful they were and how simple to make.
So, that’s why I now have a row, worth 1.5 points per day, for not eating something that I list on another day. And, I didn’t get those points today because of those pancakes. So, instead of +1.5 points, it’s –1.5 points today for that category.
Hopefully that’ll get me to stop doing it and my weight will correlate a bit better with my net calories.
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